The number of residential building permits went up, during the first half of the year, by 8.5 pct, as compared to the same period of 2017, reaching a number of 20,520 permits, according to the data of the National Institute of Statistics (INS), published Tuesday.
According to the statistics, during the interval of January 1 - June 30, given the rise in the number of permits, the most important increases were recorded in the following development regions: West (+516 permits), South-West Oltenia (+402), Southern Muntenia (+352), Center (+128), Bucharest-Ilfov (+102), North-West (+95) and South-West (+86). On the other hand, in the North-East development area a drop of 69 permits was recorded as compared to the first six months of the previous year.